THE BALTICS . . . A PRESIDENTIAL PUSH FOR CAPITALISM

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President Clinton will be the first U.S. leader to visit independent Russian neighbors Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia next month when he kicks off a grand swing through Europe. The Baltic stop will precede a meeting with Polish President Lech Walesa and the G-7 economic summit on July 8-10 in Naples. TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister says a friendly presidential visit to the Baltics was inevitable: they're serving as pathfinders to show Russia the way to modernization.